Answers before you buy, including the ones that do not flatter us.

The honest answer depends on three things: how long you are staying, whether anyone in the house will go up a ladder, and whether you will use it outside December.

This is a building material fastened to your fascia. Ask these questions before you sign anything, and pay attention to which ones make the salesperson uncomfortable.

One is a fixture. The other is a chore with a recurring invoice. The real cost, the real labor and the real difference over ten years, laid out properly.

A consumer kit costs a fraction of a professional install. Some people should absolutely buy one. Here is how to tell whether you are one of them.

Most people over-light the first time. Here is what restraint looks like on the common Omaha roof shapes, and where the money is best spent.

Done properly, no more than hanging a gutter does. Done badly, it is a leak. The difference is entirely in where it fastens and how it is sealed.

Cladding rarely matters, because the channel almost never fastens to it. What matters is the fascia behind the gutter and the depth of the overhang.

Yes, and we do it all winter. What changes is method, not whether the work happens. Here is what cold actually affects.

Most Omaha associations allow it. Several of the newer west Omaha developments have specific language. Here is how the approval actually works and who does the paperwork.

Scarlet is a harder color to get right than people expect. Here is what works on a roofline and what to avoid.

The LED is rarely what fails. Controllers, power supplies and terminations are, and those have much shorter realistic lives than the headline number.